Does size really matter, how big is your library?
So how many digital songs do you have in your library?
aloootttt hah it’s doesn’t really matter but i like to have variety in what i listen to and from different genres of music.
Over 14,000… every song I’ve ever owned except for a some tapes and records. It doesn’t matter how big your library is as long as you’ve got organised in a way you can easily find the tune you want…
11,249… DAMN.
I didn’t even realize this until now. I play just about everything, so this includes quite a bit of different genre’s. I would say it’s about 30% electro and house, 25% DnB, 20% old school funk/soul, 10% top 40, 10% hip-hop, and 5% randomness (dubstep, rock, and whatnot’s)
I keep all of my dj’ing tracks in there own library with sub-folders for each style, then i make playlist for sub-genre’s. I find this system pretty easy for keeping my tracks organized, but i’m always curious how other people sort these massive collections.
Edit: I’ve got 22 more in my place keeper folder that i put all my tracks in when i first get them. Then i organize them after i set the gains, mark the keys, and setup the cues and grids in traktor.
I have always preached musical diversity and it’s one of my proudest accomplishments as a parent. I’ve been out of the music game for 20 years though so my collection is a little puny compared to what it was back in the day. Probably 20% of mine would be considered dance music, 30% punk, 20% classic rock, 10% funk, 10% country (either classic or of the wall), 5% international/world stuff, 5% misc like christmas or otherwise themed stuff .
unless you’re a mobile dj (where you are required to own pretty much everything people might ever request), for club djs, i reckon its about quality not quantity
having too large amounts of music can sometimes confuse you and make you lose focus in what you’re trying to achieve in your set.
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I have an external drive/CD library with a bunch more stuff. I’m about to remove about 50% from my collection as it stands 
For some reason I don’t like to maintain a huge lib of songs I never play.
I think I’m somewhere around 12k songs but I probably only have 500-1000 that I play.
It’s not about how many songs you have, it’s how many “good” songs you have. Good being songs you like to play or like a lot.
I voted 27000+ but I have about 25,000+ edited ones (checked for completeness / quality in Adobe Audition and run through mastering / EQing if needed) and a few thousand waiting to be processed. It’s a mix of many genres because I undertake dinner and dance functions as well as private parties so I need a wide range of songtypes.
To be really honest, I know (by heart) perhaps 20 % (20% might be too liberal a guess) of my songs and out of that number, I only use a few percent each night but it’s always nice to surprise customers with a new tracklist daily ESPECIALLY if you’re a resident DJ.
To me, good songs are those which get the crowd moving. Sometimes as a DJ, we have to go against our preferences and start throwing in really faggardy commercial stuff. Of course it always helps if YOU like what YOU’re playing.
I have around 5 or 6 thousand in my library, probably only 1/4 at max is stuff I’d play… Of that it’s almost all drum & bass with some dubstep, and a scattering of house, electro and such.
Also about 800 songs of my library are Radiohead 
Ha, me too!
About 3800 in the Traktor library and like 2000 more outside of it that aren’t suitable for DJing at all. A lot of the 3,8k in the library aren’t either, I remove stuff as I pass by it whenever I use Traktor.
Haha, nice. Glad to see another Radiohead fan on the forums 
about 6k of “dj tunes” in the traktor library. half of which is psy 
Remember lads, its not the size that counts, its how quick you can get that chloroform soaked rag over her mouth.
I have around 17000
And I use almost none of it.
It’s not what you have, it’s how you use what you have.
Hahahah! Wow Jester, just wow. :eek:
I have but one question though: Does this rag smell like chloroform to you?
your right … it doe.. collapses
Thats what she said?
Sorry man you left the door open on that one. Back on the topic, I have about 10k on my mbp, but I have tons of music that I collect on a 4TB nas at home.
Thats what she said?
Sorry man you left the door open on that one. [/QUOTE]
Yeah I was just waiting for someone to pop off with that